Dr. Adrian Manz analyzes the major markets, stock sectors, and individual stocks for February 8.

Dave Landry takes a one-minute look at the stock market in his video for February 8.

The S&P Midcap SPDR (MDY) is the only broad-based ETF still trading above its late-November 2009 lows.

The risk for US equities at this point is that the severe correction that has taken place since the second half of January will now lead to a pattern that is likely to be a bearish pullback or flag formation on subdued volume.

Which nine stocks are we watching this week?

Should Greenspan and Bernanke have seen the bubble in housing and other assets and acted, or should we accept their defense that you can't know whether there is a bubble until after the fact? We will look at research that suggests they should have known, and, at the least, policy makers should no longer be allowed to say, "How could I have known?"

In this week's video, Peter Reznicek thinks that the major average charts are still showing more room to the downside.

In trading, loyalty will ultimately get you killed, or at the very least bankrupt.

Deeply flawed heroes at the world’s central banks and treasury departments think they can do a better job of guiding the economy than the markets themselves.

The stock market indices had an extremely volatile session Friday, but at the end of the day a strong late-afternoon, short covering-fueled rally spiked the market up and put them back in the plus column.